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Monday, April 28, 2014

All Week 4-28-14 @ THE CHALK FACE

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Bush and Rhee Endorse a Book– Fortunately, Not Mine
As I announced on April 27, 2014, my book on key individuals and organizations exploiting public education is now published: A Chronicle of Echoes: Who’s Who in the Implosion of American Public Education. Harvard professor and senior fellow at the Hoover Institute Paul Peterson and two others also have a book coming out; it entitled, Teachers versus the […]


Humanities and LSAT reflect Critical Thinking versus Core Knowledge debate
“In short, the real literacy crisis occurs whenever we deploy a pedagogy that asks our students only to consume texts and not to produce them as well.” — Richard E. Miller The ABA Journal recently posted a piece entitled “Students with these college majors had the highest LSAT scores” that discusses the findings of Pepperdine University […]
All Week 4-27-14 @ THE CHALK FACE
@ THE CHALK FACE: Video: Bill Gates “Explains” Common CoreIn the following six-minute video at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in March 2014, Bill Gates demonstrates his privileged view of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Gates has contributed over $4.3 million to AEI, with over $1 million in 2012 for “exploring the challenges of Common Core,” among other issues, so it is only fitti